71st New York Film Critics Circle Awards (2005)

Best Film:

	Brokeback Mountain
	Runners-up: A History of Violence and Good Night, and Good Luck.

Best Director:

	Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
	Runners-up: David Cronenberg - A History of Violence and Steven Spielberg - Munich

Best Actor:

	Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
	Runners-up: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote and Viggo Mortensen - A History of Violence

Best Actress:

	Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
	Runners-up: Emmanuelle Devos - Kings and Queen (Rois et reine) and Zhang Ziyi - 2046 and Memoirs of a Geisha

Best Supporting Actor:

	William Hurt - A History of Violence
	Runners-up: Mathieu Amalric - Munich and Terrence Howard - Crash

Best Supporting Actress:

	Maria Bello - A History of Violence
	Runners-up: Catherine Keener - The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, and Capote and Diane Keaton - The Family Stone

Best Screenplay:

	Noah Baumbach - The Squid and the Whale
	Runners-up: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana - Brokeback Mountain and Tony Kushner and Eric Roth - Munich

Best Cinematography:

	Christopher Doyle, Lai Yiu Fai, and Kwan Pun Leung - 2046
	Runners-up: Robert Elswit - Good Night, and Good Luck. and Emmanuel Lubezki - The New World

Best Foreign Language Film:

	2046 • China/France/Germany/Hong Kong
	Runners-up: Caché • France/Austria and Look at Me (Comme une image) • France

Best Non-Fiction Film (tie):

	Grizzly Man
	The White Diamond
	Runners-up: March of the Penguins and The Aristocrats

Best Animated Feature:

	Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro)
	Runners-up: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Corpse Bride

Best First Film:

	Bennett Miller - Capote
	Runners-up: Miranda July - Me and You and Everyone We Know and Phil Morrison - Junebug